Kindergarten Earth Science Websites

Websites for Kindergarten Earth Science
Weather and Climate

These websites support the NGSS standards at this grade level and are labeled by the type of website that it is (Student or Teacher Background, Student Online Activities, Teacher Activities, Student or Teacher Videos).

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Resource Link	Abstract	Website Types
Cool the Earth	Cool The Earth is a ready-to-run program that educates K-8 students and their families about global warming and inspires them to take simple actions to reduce their carbon emissions. The program is successful because it’s fun and empowering for the kids, and their enthusiasm is contagious! Includes assemblies, website tools, lesson plans	Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background
EduRef Science Lesson Plans	Science lessons at every grade level and topic	Teacher Activities
GLOBE	GLOBE encourages students to utilize on-line data to help answer questions about how the environment around them works. Through investigation projects students do science, learning the importance of creating hypotheses, analyzing data, drawing conclusions and reporting their results.	Student Online Activities;Teacher Background
HowToSmile.org	SMILE is a collection of educational materials on the web – all designed especially for those who teach school-aged kids in non-classroom settings. SMILE is a group of science museums dedicated to bringing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) out of the academic cloister and into the wider world. All organizations are resource hubs for educational programs that involve people of all ages and backgrounds.	Teacher Activities;Teacher Background;Teacher Videos
Old Farmer's Almanac for Kids	This website is designed for elementary school students to look at weather forecasts, astronomy and backyard animals. You can easily switch between locations to look at other areas of the country.	Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background;Teacher Videos
Paso Partners Bilingual Instruction	The resource is designed to help elementary school teachers organize their classrooms and instructional activities in order to increase achievement of Hispanic primary-grade children whose first language is not English. The guides offer a curriculum plan, instructional strategies and activities, suggested teacher and student materials, and assessment procedures. Bilingual lessons on Five Senses, Spiders, Dinosaurs, Plants & Seeds, Human Body, Health, Oceans, Weather, Matter, Sun & Stars, Sound, Simple Machines.	Teacher Activities;Teacher Background
PBS Design Squad	This website has activities for kids to do. Design Challenges, videos and more.	Student Background;Student Online Activities;Student Videos;Teacher Activities
Physical Sciences K-8: Wave Energy Units	Examples of all types of waves are found in nature. Our understanding of the physical world is not complete until we understand the properties and behaviors of waves. Mechanical waves require a material "medium" through which to travel, electromagnetic waves do not.	Teacher Activities;Teacher Background
Pizza Box Solar Oven	Instructions on how to make a pizza box solar oven.	Student Background;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background
Practical Uses of Math and Science (PUMAS)	The PUMAS examples are aimed primarily at helping pre-college teachers enrich their presentation of topics in math and science. You may find a number of examples that relate to your area of interest, perhaps written in different styles, and possibly taking different approaches to the material. There may also be comments/lesson plans filed with some of the examples, written by previous users. Use these examples as a resource -- Select, adapt, recontextualize, and present the material to your students in a way that you judge will best meet your students' needs, abilities, and interests.	Teacher Activities;Teacher Background
Project NEED	The National Energy Education Department (NEED) provides curriculum guides and activities online and helpful energy saving information. Look for the curriculum guide for teaching Greek Mythology and the Forms of Energy and an energy songbook. Kids information on energy and links to other energy websites.	Teacher Activities;Teacher Background
Scholastic: Study Jams	This short animated video clips are nice introductions or reviews to different science topics. Each general area has about 10 supporting videos. Plants, Animals, Human Body, Ecosystems, * Landforms, Rocks and Minerals Weather, Climate Solar System Matter Force and Motion Energy, Light and Sound (includes electricity and magnetism) Scientific Inquiry	Student Background;Student Videos
Science for Kids - Geography	The Geography page on Science for Kids has games, experiments, images, videos, facts, lessons and activities on subjects such as weather, volcanoes, earthquakes, rocks, fossils For videos go to http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/earth.html	Student Background;Student Online Activities;Student Videos;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background;Teacher Videos
Solar Cooking	Anything and everything you could ever want to know about solar cooking. :Lots of different kinds of plans. Try to few to see which works best.	Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background
Solar Energy International	This site provides nice information and a background to solar energy. Many links to other sites that specialize in different aspects of energy production or use.	Student Background;Teacher Background
Sun Safety	To help educators raise sun safety awareness, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed the SunWise School Program for grades K-8. SunWise Partner Schools sponsor classroom and school-wide activities that raise children's awareness of stratospheric ozone depletion, UV radiation, and simple sun safety practices. When you sign up to be a Sunwise school, you can share data online with other individuals. Your kit will include lessons, a UV-sensitive Frisbee, and the On the Trail of the Missing Ozone comic book. Registered SunWise Partner Schools can enter daily UV forecast and intensity data, map and graph data online!	Teacher Activities;Teacher Background
The Weather Dude	Welcome to the weather page especially for kids, parents and teachers from weather forecaster Nick Walker. Explains that weather changes daily and seasonally, affecting us all. Great links to other kids weather sites.	Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background
WatchKnowLearn.org	This website has free educational videos on all topics (including science) for all age levels. There is specifically a section for younger learners.	Student Background;Student Videos;Teacher Background;Teacher Videos

The mission of CRS is to empower teachers and STEM professionals serving schools in historically marginalized communities to activate TK-8 students’ curiosity about the world, foster critical thinking, and inspire children to imagine future career pathways. We envision a community of educators, scientists, families and partners working together to build school cultures that equip all children to explore the world around them and build the skills needed to become innovators, problem solvers, environmental stewards, life-long learners and leaders. CRS leads a dynamic network, fostering relationships and collaborations that leverage expertise and resources to transform science teaching and learning toward greater equity, opportunity, and success for all students.

Our goal is simple: help teachers give students more opportunities to “do science” – to ask questions, test ideas, get their hands on real science activities. We need to inspire the next generation of thinkers, makers, problem solvers, and leaders!